God Kairos (lat. Caerus, other Greek. Καιρός) the ancient Greek god of a happy moment. Kairos is an elusive moment of good fortune that always comes unexpectedly, and therefore it is very difficult to

The amount of tyrants that took control of a city in ancient Greece is near innumerable, so I've decided to limit this post to three cities I found to have the most interesting stories of being ruled by

As it's the 29th of February today, and as leap years only come around every 4 years, I decided to do a post on where this oddity in our calendar actually came from, and why February has so few days in

As it's the 29th of February today, and as leap years only come around every 4 years, I decided to do a post on where this oddity in our calendar actually came from, and why February has so few days in

Go and check out Part 1! - SOLON BEGINS HIS TRAVELSOnce all of Solon's laws were implemented, there wasn’t a day that went by in which he didn’t receive an audience expressing their approval or disproval

BIOGRAPHYSolon was born in around 638 BC in Athens. His father was either Euphorion or, more likely, Execestides, a man of some wealth and political influence, and from a distinguished Athenian family.

The world’s oldest and most stable democracy emerged in Ancient Athens. The current Greek capital, Athens has remained prosperous and cultural for millennia. First settled in Neolithic times, some six

While I'm working on my next blog post on Athens and the reforms of Solon (SPOILERS), here's a drawing I did a while back of a Spartan hoplite, for last weeks post, which you should definitely go check

“It occurred to me one day that Sparta, although one of the more thinly populated of the Greek states, was evidently the most powerful and most celebrated city in Greece, and I fell to wondering how this

EARLY COLONISATION Greek colonisation occurred in two stages. The first, centred around the 11th to 9th centuries, took the Greeks across the Greek mainland, the Aegean Islands and to Asia Minor. The second

The history of the Archaic period of Greece is much more well documented and preserved for us today than any other part of Greek/Aegean history before it. With a lot to cover, it's definitely best to first

(Possible routes of the Dorian Invasion, c.1,250 - 1,150 BC) For about 50 years, in around 1,200 BC, the major palace centres of Mycenaean culture were burnt to the ground, with the major remnants of the

The Mycenaean Era of roughly 1,600 to 1,100 BC saw the rise of important palace centres, such as Mycenae, Pylos, Tiryns, Thebes, Iolkos and Athens. For Greece, this era was the final stage of the Bronze

In 1900, Sir Arthur Evans excavated the ancient city now known as Knossos, Crete, and further excavations continued onwards from there. The digs revealed an earlier non-Greek palace cultured civilization

NOTE: This blog is for understanding VERY BASIC Ancient Greek and will not delve deep into teaching you how to write/speak it at an advanced level; it's for being able to understand letters and simple

For hundreds of years, the Greeks economically and culturally ruled most of the Mediterranean Sea, founding wealthy colonies from Spain in the West to Turkey in the East, and from Egypt to the Black Sea.

Part 1 has already been uploaded to my Steemit page - go check it out! :) - SOLON BEGINS HIS TRAVELSOnce all of Solon's laws were implemented, there wasn’t a day that went by in which he didn’t receive

BIOGRAPHYSolon was born in around 638 BC in Athens. His father was either Euphorion or, more likely, Execestides, a man of some wealth and political influence, and from a distinguished Athenian family.

The world’s oldest and most stable democracy emerged in Ancient Athens. The current Greek capital, Athens has remained prosperous and cultural for millennia. First settled in Neolithic times, some six

While I'm working on my next blog post on Athens and the reforms of Solon (SPOILERS), here's a drawing I did a while back of a Spartan hoplite, for last weeks post, which you should definitely